Preces Quotidianae
Plea and God's Part
The opening plea and the declaration of God's nature as the foundation for prayer.
The Compassion of God
A series of scriptural affirmations of God's mercy, patience, and forgiveness.
For the Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to anger and rich in mercy;✦3 He will not be angry forever, nor will he threaten forever.4 He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so he has strengthened his mercy toward those who fear him.5 As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our sins away from us. As a father has mercy on his children, so the Lord has had mercy on those who fear Him.✦ He is kind and gentle, and rich in mercy toward everyone who calls on him.6 The Lord is kind to all, and His mercies are over all His works. (7 For He delights in mercy.✦
The Heart of Mercy
A structured reflection on God as the Father of mercy and mercy itself.
He is the Father of mercy.8 2. Heart. 1. 3. He is mercy.
God's Proper Work
The contrast between mercy as God's proper work and punishment as alien to Him, with a scriptural citation.
Showing mercy is his proper work.✦9 To punish is a work alien and foreign to Him. 4s. xxviii. 2].
Magnifying the Lord's Power
A concluding prayer for the Lord's power to be magnified as He proclaimed.
May the power of the Lord be magnified, as he proclaimed, saying,
Read the original Latin
ALLEGATIO.
EX PARTE DEI. (1.] Natura Dei.
Quia miserator ct misericors Dominus, longanimis et multum misericors ;
Non in perpetuum irascetur, neque in zternum comminabitur.
Non secundum peccata nostra fecit nobis, neque secundum iniquitates nostras retribuit nobis.
Quoniam secundum altitudinem cceli a terra, corroboravit misericordiam suam super timentes Eum.
Quantum distat ortus ab occidente, longe fecit a nobis iniquitates nostras.
Quomodo miseretur pater filiorum, misertus est Dominus timentibus Eum.
Quia suavis, et mitis, et multze misericordix est omnibus invocantibus Eum.
Suavis Dominus universis, et miserationes Ejus super omnia opera Ejus. (
Quia volens misericordiam est.
Pater est misericordie. 2. Cor. 1. 3.
Misericordia est.
misereri opus proprium,
Cui punire opus alienum et peregrinum. 4s. xxviii. 2].
Magnificetur virtus Domini, sicut proclamavit, dicens,
Scripture echoes
- ↩Ps.103.9 — He will not always contend with us, nor will he keep his anger forever.
- ↩Ps.103.13;Ps.103.13;Ps.102.12 — As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him. Ps.103.13 — As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him. Ps.102.12 — My days are like a shadow that stretches out, and I wither like grass.
- ↩Mic.7.18;Ps.145.9;2Cor.1.3 — Who is a God like you, who takes away iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love. Ps.145.9 — The LORD is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. 2Cor.1.3 — Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
- ↩Isa.28.21 — For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, as in the valley of Gibeon he will be stirred up, to do his deed — strange is his deed — and to perform his work — foreign is his work.
Notes
- 1 ↩Latin ALLEGATIO is a structural heading. In classical/legal Latin it means allegation, adducing, or pleading. Rendered here as 'Plea' for modern American English (avoiding the contemporary legal sense of 'allegation' as an unproven charge). Neighboring EX PARTE DEI supports a formal pleading/grounds section in daily prayer.
- 2 ↩Source reads '(1.]'; treated as a corrupt print of the section number '(1.)'.
- 3 ↩Source reads 'ct' between miserator and misericors; translated as the standard et (and), matching the familiar psalmic formula and the parallel et later in the clause.
- 4 ↩Source reading 'zternum' is treated as a corruption of 'aeternum' (forever/for eternity), matching the Psalm wording and the parallel 'in perpetuum'.
- 5 ↩Source surface cceli is treated as caeli (heaven); the sense is the height of heaven from the earth.
- 6 ↩Normalized reading treats OCR-corrupt 'multze misericordix' as 'multae misericordiae' (of great / abundant mercy), matching the sense of Ps 85:5 Vg / 86:5.
- 7 ↩Source unit is only an opening parenthesis; likely a segmentation artifact or the start of a parenthetical citation rather than a full sentence.
- 8 ↩Source misericordie is treated as medieval/early-modern spelling of misericordiae (genitive of misericordia): ‘Father of mercy.’
- 9 ↩opus proprium: God's characteristic work, set against the following opus alienum et peregrinum (judgment as work foreign to him).
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